“To find is nothing. The difficult thing is to add to oneself what one has found.”

Original: Trouver n'est rien. Le difficile est de s'ajouter ce qu'on trouve. — Discovery becomes valuable only when it changes the person who makes it. · Monsieur Teste (French)

• Discovery
• Growth
• Knowledge

“The desire to have precise ideas often leads to doing nothing.”

Original: Les idées précises conduisent souvent à ne rien faire. — Excessive insistence on certainty can become an excuse for avoiding action. · Mélange (French)

• Action
• Ideas
• Perfection

“The poet devotes and consumes himself to defining and constructing a language within language.”

Original: Le poète se consacre et se consume à définir et à construire un langage dans le langage. — Poetry is presented as the creation of a heightened language within ordinary language. · Variété (French)

• Craft
• Language
• Poetry